Russian President Says Not to Sell Kaliningrad for Debts

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Russian President Says Not to Sell Kaliningrad for Debts

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Russia will not give away the Kaliningrad Region for debts.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Russia will not give away the Kaliningrad Region for debts.

"We are not selling our lands, and are not going to do so," Putin said at a meeting with census workers.

"We do not and cannot forget about Kaliningrad. It is the Baltic Fleet's base. It was, is and will remain there," he stressed.

He also said that he would attend the Baltic Fleet's exercises in Kaliningrad "in the nearest time".

Kaliningrad, a Russian enclave on the Baltic Sea of about a million people, will be surrounded by European Union territory once its neighbors Poland and Lithuania join the EU in 2004.

Under an EU-Russian deal agreed last November, Russian citizens will be allowed to pass through Lithuania to the Baltic enclave ofKaliningrad using so-called "facilitated transit documents" (FTD) instead of visas.

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